On paper, the combination of Avril Lavigne and the lyrics “All my life I’ve been good / but now / ohhh I’m I thinking what the hell,” from her new single “What the Hell,” do not seem particularly promising. Not just because we are suspicious that Lavigne has been good all of her life (no offense, Avril), but because at this point when are young female pop singers ever thinking anything but “what the hell”? (What the hell, I’ll datum Brody Jenner, smoke salvia, wear latex all day, venereal diseases, embarrassing photographs, yeast infections etc. etc. be damned.) But these pop...
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